Sunday, September 04, 2011

I know! I threaten to quit food blogging, and then the greatest dish comes out of my kitchen.
It's totally faux, phony, fabricated. And it tasted just like it was supposed to! Odd, considering that I've never tasted it before.
You are looking at a bowl of dashi broth, heightened a bit with a spoonful of miso and a squirt of shoyu. In this brown deliciousness, cook some mung bean noodles, those stringy transparent things. Add chopped scallion and cubes of tofu. This looks like a little too much tofu (it was).
That's it. That's all. Simple as pie, especially if you use liquid dashi concentrate.
I couldn't believe how good it was, and how filling. And it's practically health food.
This is going into heavy rotation.

Kudzu: It was so pure and simple, I didn't even want to jazz it up with sesame oil or chile flakes. Mind blowing.

OK, Cranky's credit card account got hacked. He opened his bill the other day to find he owed $10,000. B of A was perfectly decent about it and reversed the charges. And he got a new card. It was a clear case of fraud, almost laughably. The sad thing is, the ones who have to eat the expenses? The merchants this crook was robbing.

Dashi broth in many variations is in my rotation during colder months (it could be good chilled too, I've never thought to try it). Sometimes I drop in a handful of frozen scallops instead of tofu while the broth is cooking. Scallions are a must and little starch something to give it a wee bit of heft.

Maybe Chilebrown would like it if you'd put some pork belly in it? Or ribs or sausages? I've done something similar. I keep a tub of miso in my fridge and use that for a quick breakfast with an egg beaten in. I love the addition of scallions and I think that the Japanese add some carrot slivers as well. Arigato gozaimasu

Who She?

I live a couple of miles from the Marin County Civic Center Farmers' Market, which feeds my little blogging hobby. Hell, it feeds me, too.
Formerly employed, I'm now a bum. Happy bum. Tomato ranchin' bum.
But I'm still mad.